> If you build a system that doesn't deal with spam, it gets drowned in spam. If you build a system that doesn't deal with abuse, abuse becomes commonplace. If

> If you build a system that doesn't deal with spam, it gets drowned in spam. If you build a system that doesn't deal with abuse, abuse becomes commonplace. If you don't secure your IoT devices you get journalists DDoSed by lightbulbs. It's the same kind of social responsibility. I think it's deeper than that, it's Inverse Conway's Law_. Reddit was fine before they introduced sub-reddits. It used to be a nice "not quite so tech" HN. Sub-reddits allowed very different cultures to form and easily war with each other. Conway's Law states that systems end up with structure that mirrors the structure of the teams that design them. The inverse is true too. Social systems tend to mirror geographical (or in this case, technical) structure.